Joshua Reynolds Quotes

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Joshua Reynolds

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• Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Friend
  • Need
  • Well

• Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Experience
  • Health

• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • Character
  • Song

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Night
  • Me
  • Dance

• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Early

• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Book
  • House
  • Lost

• Saving a life overrides territories.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Life
  • Saving
  • Territories

• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Well
  • Sexuality

• During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Life
  • Family
  • School

• What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Important
  • Money
  • Why

• Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Court
  • Outside
  • Smarter

• A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Wise

• For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Game
  • Political

• If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Time
  • Space
  • Office

• After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Decision
  • Moral
  • Waiting

• Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Long
  • Why
  • Humanity

• The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • Inspiration
  • Genius

• You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Write
  • Wants
  • Catalog

• Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Genius
  • Teach
  • Rules